King William Street
London
The building has a 2 level basement constructed with no crane access, requiring easily manually handled, lightweight formwork systems throughout. It is also an island site that occupies the entire 2,200 m2 footprint which required the construction of a logistics slab to enable the supply of concrete to the building without interruption to other trades. The project has a requirement of 5,000 m3 of high quality concrete and 500 Tonnes of reinforcement with a work force of 50 operatives.
33 King William St is a new office development in Central London providing a total of 22,200m2 of office space.
Consisting of a both reinforced concrete slabs and concrete on composite deck, the project also had a high count of both column and beam encasements.
A number of column encasements had special finish architectural concrete containing Silver Mica course flaked admixture. These column encasements vary between 4 and 12m in height by .65m in diameter. The Silver Mica mix is also used in the public lift shaft that provides access between Upper Thames Street and King William Street.
